Russell Coker wrote: >>Essentially this means that they have provided something to placate >>us, >> >> >Who has it placated? Certainly not me! > It was apparently intended to placate. Whether it did so is entirely another matter :) >>but which they can reverse at any point in the future should it >>fit a new corporate strategy. From a commercial view point it's quite >>reasonable, but from the GPL/development point of view it is >>essentially a useless gesture. >> >> >Even from a commercial point of view it's not reasonable. If someone tried >to screw over one of my clients in such a fashion I'd react in the same way. > In what way is SCC screwing anyone over? They are not fully contributing the Type Enforcement patent to the open source community, but AFAIK, they are not actually obliged to do so (modulo any obligations between SCC and the NSA). >>From a PR point of view it's potentially even more damaging to SCC >>(depending on whether the wider geek/development community interprets >>it as an honest attempt to resolve the issue or an under-handed >>trick). >> >> >I haven't seen any evidence of honest attempts to resolve the issue from SCC. > I interpret what I have seen as honest attempts to resolve an ugly and complex situation. That the result is not totally pleasing to people who are dependent upon a piece of code with cloudy intellectual property status does not make SCC's efforts bad faith. I also suspect that most of SCC's efforts are happening in private. Were I in their shoes, I would not choose to discuss substantive issue in such a complex situation in public. Crispin -- Crispin Cowan, Ph.D. Chief Scientist, WireX http://wirex.com/~crispin/ Security Hardened Linux Distribution: http://immunix.org Available for purchase: http://wirex.com/Products/Immunix/purchase.html _______________________________________________ linux-security-module mailing list linux-security-moduleat_private http://mail.wirex.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-security-module
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